serial number? Don't we mean serial date?

Greetings!

I am doing triage on the data types and keep running into date being 
referred to as a serial number?

Surely we mean serial date?

But it happens so often that I wanted to ask before changing it.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau

Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
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